Word: suspicion
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...moderately successful Governor with no national or international stature (see following story). Many Northern Republicans were rankled by the ready acceptance of the selection by Southerners and by conservatives generally. Although Agnew is a moderate by Maryland standards and a liberal by Deep South criteria, there was the suspicion that he was on the ticket to placate Thurmond and other segregationists. Not only liberals protested. Colorado Senator Peter Dominick howled: "There are 2,000,000 people in my state who have never heard of Agnew. It's a terrible choice...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). McGuire, Go Home (1966). During the British occupation of Cyprus in the 1950s, an American tourist (Susan Strasberg) visits the island and inadvertently witnesses an underground meeting, thereby arousing the suspicion of both the Cypriots and a British major (Dirk Bogarde). Repeat...
Cheered & Booed. From Prague to the High Tatra Mountains, reports TIME Correspondent Peter Forbath, who spent several weeks traveling through Czechoslovakia, the hostility, suspicion and dreariness associated with other Communist states has all but vanished. Unlike Communist bosses elsewhere, the country's leaders make frequent public appearances, are often cheered, booed, photographed and chased for autographs. At the borders, customs officers dutifully glance into the car trunks of foreign visitors, but do not even bother to open their luggage before waving them through. Traffic the other way is heavy too; suddenly able to get passports and visas after years...
Nothing ever happened to substantiate their fears. The Theosophists gradually became accepted by the community. They even joined the Chamber of Commerce. Last week, when leaders of the society's 4,500 U.S. members met in Wheaton for their annual national convention, theosophy was once again under some suspicion. The scarcely adequate reason is that Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, had asked for and received a copy of the society's most sacred book, The Secret Doctrine. Its author: Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-91), the Russian-born founder and high priestess of the movement...
...Workers of international relief agencies reported that as many as 3,000 Biafrans a day were dying and that total deaths might reach 2,000,000 by the end of August. Though those figures may be exaggerated, it was clear that the war's bitterness, the rigidity and suspicion on both sides, was preventing help from reaching many thousands of innocent noncombatants who are sick and dying...